been violated under the federal venue that's with regard health and welfare and safety we're in seismic city the underlined sovereign rights of in addition, the board has considered the housing or land prices of housing have b have become inelastic it's a federal right to make the housing land available and affordable this is well beyond our expertise and obviously your intent we'll receive a new venue. >> hello, i'm christie wong the policy director for spur thank you for the opportunity to talk about it this we commend the staff and support of the recommendation of the draft to allow the mayor's office of housing initiative to be implemented our city is a attracting jobs and resources and opportunities the city needs to produce between 4 and 6,000 unit to catch up with our deficit we can and should do more a few thoughts we start with neighborhood planning it is progressing the neighborhood plan that are currently producing the vast majority of housing there's only one plan in process the central selma plan to expend the plan of the community and two make it easier for homeowners to add th

time in the history of our city the questions of whether one can afford to do the intensive redevelopment of american people existing building shell that involves not only seismic but absolutely other things does really play into the criteria of variance the question of whether we want in our city to have a difference demographics of both families and non-families is not reflected in the criteria the criteria in my opinion reflects things that go beyond that and therefore leads into quite unusual or perhaps special cases and not standard like cases we've been hearing in recent years and so therefore when i look at the first two criteria yes. the other 3 i accept that but on the first two criteria i don't see the points maybe you can explain the first two criteria commissioner wilson. >> you want me to read the criteria. >> i have one or two things pointed out it's in here look at right here the preliminary statement the copy of variance is in there. >> all yours. >> sorry. >> just want to get it right. >> still clear as mud. >> just want to see excuse me. for a second. >> i would say again, i fully appreciate the intent of the project is and that our decisions

when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. >> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so it's to everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. >> notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially at-risk prop

projects just by project so you get a sense of where funding is coming from, seismic being a very small piece of the for city work, but notably absent from there is the golden state warriors at pier 30-32 which did a lot to repair that facility. but no longer. the republic numbers going around with that development and some revisions to all of our estimates at pier 70. the size of that bar, top to bottom, is what our overall need is, and it's grown by in the most current year only 2 percent so it really is only about $30 million more than the prior year, excepting last year as something of an anomaly we do continue to show steady progress. incremental, not hue homongus, but steady progress. that's where i'd like to close it and i'll hand it to megan >> megan wallace, port finance, and i'd like to go over our port capital supplemental. so this is the second year of a fixed two-year budget. the port staff were able to identify additional funding, notably from the pg&e prepayment as elaine mentioned earlier. we have 15.3 million of additional funds from that deal, as well as 4.2 million of savings from previous

for the seismic and safety improvement for the fire stations but dpw is now recommending the use of the yours bond of the temporary fire station on treasure island by the developer both the city attorney's office and the office of public finance have determined this is an allowable use of bond our point when the voters voted on the bonds the clear 27b9 for the seismic improvements to neighborhood fire stations under those circumstances not for the temporary fire station on treasure island so our recommendations supervisors on page 10 we recommend you request the city attorney to report back to the board of supervisors about options to amend the administrative code for purposes of limiting the ability of city departments

kruger with the analysis we're making every structural engineer in the city will delusional uh-huh tell you the stimuli pilot seismic upgrade will rely on the structural elements or new elements that's not trigger or engage some of the old seeksdz in this case the horizon extension was sitting down easier to implement we don't have to gage the existing walls or modify some of the elements particularly in the front of the building and important importantly utilities a series of structural extremely framed that unfortunately will most likely eliminate the option of being able to stay in the house awhile you're doing the construction work the proposal we have will allow the project sponsor to remain in the how did that while your critiquing this so they'll not be forced into having to find xhoomgsdz during the construction phase it would be lengthy maybe 6 to 9 months to implement that's an added cost horizon vision we're proposing is an edition that can be obviously implemented in a less efficient manner and the cost analysis we have provided to you it is actually acquit a discrepancy between trying to put something i

for the seismic and safety improvement for the fire stations but dpw is now recommending the use of the yours bond of the temporary fire station on treasure island by the developer both the city attorney's office and the office of public finance have determined this is an allowable use of bond our point when the voters voted on the bonds the clear 27b9 for the seismic improvements to neighborhood fire stations under those circumstances not for the temporary fire station on treasure island so our recommendations supervisors on page 10 we recommend you request the city attorney to report back to the board of supervisors about options to amend the administrative code for purposes of limiting the ability of city departments to allow the bonds for the competitive procedures in this case i stated clearly the department had sufficient time to award those and not just with all due respect those contracts for the sole base on they're reasonable cost we had no include whether or not $2.5 million to make a temporary fix to the fire station and no one knows for sure excluding the department one way or the other without a competitive bid that shows with the price should have been so we co

for the seismic and safety improvement for the fire stations but dpw is now recommending the use of the yours bond of the temporary fire station on treasure island by the developer both the city attorney's office and the office

city is now in ruin just look at that. ukrainian forces just left it to pro russia separatist on wednesday. fight, the fall of which the separatists such a seismic moment. >> we're going further says serge. how do we live through this? i wish they could feel like we did and their children, too. >> this russian shows proof he says that fighting fascists not as seems more likely here. the shelling has not stopped. >> barely a home has escaped. this the first time so many have ventured out. their world now part of a growing separatist enclave that is fast redrawing borders. and that so often feels like a state more than a insurgency. anger at their old masters is on display. >> there are many of us here and remember how they said there were no people. miller lived through world war ii. this is worse she says. is that really possible? oh my mother. isited on to this. r ago it was quite a scene there on the streets of kiev. when it will end is a big question. >> reporter: yes, it certainly is a very big question. i don't think anybody who saw the events that happened almost exactly a year agho today here and could have believed that things could turn